Enhancing the Performance of Medical Implant Communication Systems through Cooperative Diversity

Battery-operated medical implants—such as pacemakers or cardioverter-defibrillators—have already been widely used in practical telemedicine and telecare applications. However, no solution has yet been found to mitigate the effect of the fading that the in-body to off-body communication channel is su...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barnabás Hegyi, János Levendovszky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/920704